EXPLOSION IN A MINE.; Six Men Believed to Have Been Killed Near Chicopee, Kan. -- Rescue Party at Work.

PITTSBURG, Kan., Jan. 8. -- Six lives are supposed to have been lost by an explosion probably of dust or gas at 6:40 o'clock this evening in Shaft No. 5 of the Mount Carmel Company mine, six and a half miles south of here, near Chicopee. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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